Benchmark

[Guest]

I benched a new system in our training room last night.

 

This system was a

 

Q9450 - 2.66Ghz

4 gigs Ram

1 - 10k RPM Hard drive

FX1700 video card

XP Pro - SP3

 

5:37 seconds

 

Our previous fastest system was an

 

E6850 - 3Ghz

2 gigs RAM

1 - 10k RPM Hard Drive

FX1700 video card

XP Pro - SP2

 

came in at 5:47

 

This lead me to ask why the slower Ghz speed came in with a faster time.

 

Someone mentioned back a bit about the on-board cache. I believe that is where this Quad chip won.

 

It has an on-board cache of 12megs/6

each set of duo cores has access to 6 megs of available cache

 

The E6850 has four megs total of on-chip cache.

 

Both chips have a FSB of 1333 Mhz

 

In order of important IMO

 

1. On-chip Cache - Bigger IS better

2. CPU - Ghz

3. FSB

4. Memory

5. Hard Drive speed

[Bryan Johnson]

out of box,

DELL Precision M6300 (lap top)

Intel Core2 Duo CPU

T9300 @ 2.5GHz

3GB ram

nvidia quadro fx 1600M 512mb

XP SR2

 

6:08

 

My old/previous M60 runs same @ 9:18

[strabe]

Just received:

 

HP xw4600 Workstation

Intel Core2 Duo E685 @ 3 GHz

4 Gigs RAM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 w/ 512 mb RAm

XP SR2

 

5:56

 

Old Comp: 12:05

[bogusmill]

Over the weekend I tried what I suggested in a previous post and was somewhat surprised at the result. I changed the size of the tools in the benchmark file and saved it with a different name so MC would be generating different code for two instances of MC and not just the same thing twice.

 

The 2 files finished in 4:10. Just 5 seconds off my time for one instance. It probably took a second to start the second instance and I've backed off the speed of my PC from 3.8Ghz to 3.6Ghz which should account for the 5 seconds.

 

[ 06-09-2008, 11:01 AM: Message edited by: bogusmill ]

[#Rekd™]

Hi Bogusmill,

 

You got mail.

 

John

[JG]

old box....11:32

 

new box 6:27

 

Dell 690

Xeon 5150 @ 2.66 GHz

4 Gb ram

Quadro 3450

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Fer all y'all that're using high performance hard drives, how much difference does it make in loading and saving large files? For me I consider over about 50mb to be a "large" file and I've had up to about 100mb.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Matt,

 

my files are 150 meg to 400meg.(rarely under 100meg)

But I only have ever used 10,000 rpm drives.

 

My files never take more then 20 sec to load or save.

 

Rick

[DLG]

New Dell laptop, vorestro 1700, 2.5 T9300 intel dual core,7200 rpm HD, 8600 nivida GT video card with 512 megs, win xp, 2 gig ram.

Clocked off 5.45 out of the box.

[Thee Rickster ™]

X3 gave me the exact same time as X2 MR2 SP1

 

4:56

[bogusmill]

I'm going to try X3 on my quad core this weekend. Rickster has a dual core and if X3 is multithreaded there should be some improvement.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Mastercam 3 isn't sopposed to be utilizing multi cores is it? I haven't had a chance to red the whats new yet.

[neil qwerty]

I got the same time also with X3.

[bogusmill]

My time also is unchanged.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Maybe the paths process faster, but not on the benchmark...

[Guest]

quote:

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Mastercam 3 isn't sopposed to be utilizing multi cores is it?

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There is no a version of x64 Mastercam

[Scott Sizemore]

New version of Cimco HSM with the same step over, step down, tolerance, and cutter strategies 2:05. 100% cpu usage of my quad core almost the entire time. MasterCam on this same machine 5:27. I can get down to 5:07 with over clocking but it starts to become unstable. I also noticed the Cimco takes advantage of 64 bit technology I may have to buy some different sticks of ram and load XP64 and see if I can get a little more out of it.

 

Q6800 Quad core @2.93 GHz Extreme Edition

4 GB of 1066 MHZ Ram

Asus P5N32-E Mother Board

WD Raptor Drive

GeForce 8800 GTS video card

XP 32 bit SP3

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

quote:

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There is no a version of x64 Mastercam

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What does 64 bit have to do with it?

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

HSMWorks will utilize and process on all cores and memory in 32 or 64 bit.

[Guest]

The answer is NO Keith it does not.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

thanks John

[StormWerkz]

Just ran it.

1st regen 8:41

 

Dell Vostro 1500 (laptop)

T7250 Core 2 Duo @2.00 Ghz

2GB ram

160 GB 7200 rpm HD

Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

15.4 laptop monitor and 22"widescreen

Win XP Home (moderate tweaking with BlackViper settings)

Page file - 4092mb

 

I was worried I would be eating dust but I guess it isn't to shabby

[StormWerkz]

I was watching the CPU meter in the task manager when I ran the program, it was pegged to the top.

What would the best way to give my laptop more breathing room? Just more memory?

Thanks

[Guest]

quote:

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What would the best way to give my laptop more breathing room? Just more memory?

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It really depends.

 

What are your system specs now, CPU, memory, paging file size?

[StormWerkz]

quote:

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What are your system specs now, CPU, memory, paging file size?

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Dell Vostro 1500 (laptop)

T7250 Core 2 Duo @2.00 Ghz

2GB ram

160 GB 7200 rpm HD

Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

15.4 laptop monitor and 22"widescreen

Win XP Home (moderate tweaking with BlackViper settings)

Page file - 4092mb